Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

328. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of legal action against her Department for the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54462/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

The Department incurs expenditure on legal and compensation costs/fees from Vote 37 Department of Social Protection and the Social Insurance Fund. The elements of these payments relating solely to legal fees are not recorded separately. The following table sets out expenditure on legal and compensation costs/fees paid by the Department for the period 1/1/2011 to 30/11/2013: